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Talking Heads: No. 1 (BBC Radio Collection) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge, Stephanie Cole, Julie Walters, Thora Hird, Anna Massey
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £15.65
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 20891
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Number Of Items: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0563558946
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780563558941
ASIN: 0563558946
Publication Date: October 3, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Alan Bennett's award-winning series of six television monologues, Talking Heads, may have been first aired in 1988, but over a decade later it is still impossible to read these deeply moving and affectionate scripts without hearing the voices of the actors who played them. Maggie Smith as the alcoholic vicar's wife finding a semblance of happiness in an affair with an Indian shop owner, Patricia Routledge as the poisonous neighbour, Julie Walters as the over-the-hill dolly bird auditioning for a porn film and of course Thora Hird as Doris, the old lady alone in her home having fallen and broken her hip. All great performances and all made possible by Bennett's wonderfully observant and poignant scripts. Bennett rightly notes in his introduction to the pieces that, maybe apart from Doris, his narrators are artless in that they "don't quite know what they are saying and are telling a story to the meaning of which they are not entirely privy". But through their artlessnes they reveal more about Britain today and the stresses and strains placed upon ordinary people, than any number of docu-soaps that now claim to show us real life. --Nick Wroe
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 Alan Bennett's monologues are fabulous! January 3, 2002
Ms. R. C. Preddy (Umea, Sweden)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
The beauty of Alan Bennett's monologues are that as you read or listen to them, you assume things from phrases they say. And so, when something happens in the story, it surprises you, it turns out that the person is different to how you imagined,but it still fits with the story. Alan Bennett is a genius! His monologues really are superb.
Observational Genius! November 15, 2002
Dave (Somwhere in the midlands, England)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Breathtaking is a word so often used to describe an offering from any artist, but this truly is. From simply observing the different and sometimes darkest side of human nature you find yourself completely engrosed and almost personally attatched to each charachter. His ability to exploit humor, and then drift into sadness and frustration without even seeming to step aside is superb. Within afew lines, even as early as the preliminary "setting", the personal effect his writing has takes you instantly into the situation and leaves you unable to exit until the sometimes bitter,sometimes hilarous, but always intriguing end. Each charachter seems genuinely real, the ordinary lives turning out as anything but. Of all this writers brilliant work this is unboubtedly the best (although "The Lady In The Van" is also worth a look, as is "Telling tales"...)to name but afew.
Amust for any fan of literature.
the best book ive read in years November 9, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
if you are looking for an insight into the way people used to think and feel buy this book,if you want to be entertained buy this book ive had the talking heads books for a long time and i read them every six months or so and they never get tired if i came face to face with mr bennett i would thank him for bring such an amazing piece of art to the world
Another Alan Bennett success and hopefully more to come. May 30, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Mr Bennett's characters are so true to life - they were in TH1 and 2 and Im sure will be in TH3. Whilst you try and not think about Patricia R and Thora H playing the parts, it is very difficult as the parts are so real! Some classic one liners and many pictures painted during each short story. As a Lancashire lass, my one wish would be to meet this very clever Yorkshireman and shake his hand. More please.
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